South Dakota ELA 11-12.SL.5
The Standard
Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose visuals that help an audience follow a claim or piece of evidence. They explain what the audience should notice and use the visual while speaking, rather than reading the slide.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student makes a readable chart with an accurate scale, clear labels, and a source. While presenting, they point out a pattern and explain how it supports their conclusion.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often fill slides with paragraphs and read them aloud. They may choose a striking photo that does not support their claim, or make a chart with missing labels or a misleading scale.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Library visits were 20 Monday, 35 Tuesday, 50 Wednesday, and 30 Thursday. Sketch one slide showing when visits peaked, then write what you would say while showing it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs graph paper and a four-day library visits table; have them draw a chart, label it, and rehearse one spoken explanation.
Show a text-heavy slide and a labeled chart of the same survey; ask which better supports the speaker's claim and why.
Play Slide Match: give groups three claims and five charts, photos, or maps; have them choose and defend one match.
Give students a school board budget chart and ask them to rewrite its title and labels for a two-minute public comment.
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Related Standards
- 8.SL.5
Integrate relevant multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
- 6.SL.5
Include relevant multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
- 7.SL.5
Include relevant multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.
- 9-10.SL.5
Integrate digital media and visual displays in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
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